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Here's my hot take: having a PhD doesn't automatically mean you're smarter than everyone else. It just means you're super into a particular subject and wanted to dive in deep. Sure, PhDs can be experts in their field, but that doesn't necessarily translate to being smarter than folks in other areas. People sometimes make the mistake of assuming PhDs are smarter because they're usually older and have had more life experiences. Plus, they spend years collecting, analyzing data, thinking, and debating, which definitely hones their skills. But that doesn't mean they're geniuses at everything else.
define what's being "smarter" in the context of this post.
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Not my thoughts but I had an hour long talk with an influential engineer lead. They said PhD is better at evaluating a problem as a whole and considering things like future cases or collecting feedback/data or blah blah. They question things a lot more. Non PhD just try to finish the given task lol
Anyone in operations with experience can do that. PhD not needed.
Right, they were just saying PhD tends to do that on default more often
PhD is just an evidence that one is somewhat smart and persistent. One can be smart and persistent without any evidence or degree as well.
Persistence more than smart actually. Smart people fail to finish all the time and dumb people will get a PHD with hard work.
Hardwork beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard
I know several who just liked being in school more than working. You don’t need to be smart to get into most programs. That’s like saying anyone with a bachelors is smart regardless of the school. The ones who went to a selective school probably are but for the rest it’s variable.
If they are smarter then why they need PhD? 😜
Sounds like a typical non-group perspective on insert-group. And one of the most common drop-outta-college-culture tech perspectives on phds. Not sure where the hot take is. Coming from academia, i would much rather work with a random phd than a random Amazonian.
Ugh. Not me.
Not a high bar.
I know at least a couple who continued PhD after Masters for the sake of it. Sometimes either to extend I-20 or no job in time. In other words, nobody took admission into grad school with the intention of doing PhD. Just avg BE from India. This was 15-20 years ago though.
On average, yes. PhDs have an avg IQ is about 115-125 if I recall correctly. Avg IQ on blind is probably less than that. Read Bell Curve by Charles Murray if you are interested
Based on my own possibly biased observations in the last two years, no
Smartness has no correlation to your education level. Higher education might be a good indicator of smartness though. Also it depends on the location and situation In the Amazon jungle or in an apocalypse, the unlikeliest of people might trump the traditionally educated folks
How can you said smartness has no correlation with education and then immediately say education is a good indicator of smartness?
Smartness DOES have a correlation with education levels. A person with a 70 IQ is likely going to have a much harder time getting a PhD. But a person with a 135 IQ is likely going to have a much easier time getting a PhD. But this doesn’t mean that PhD equals intelligence. And it definitely doesn’t mean genius levels of intelligence.